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Any good surrealist literature? I’m looking for something like pic related but as a novel. Last time I made this thread I was recommended the book “the trial” by Franz Kafka which I really enjoyed but it wasn’t really what I was looking for

>> No.15803332

The Blind Owl

>> No.15803347

Maldoror

>> No.15803361
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67eos8awdaQ

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Also had my eye on this one.

>> No.15803448

>>15803312
beckett

>> No.15803826

>>15803361
What does the key mean? How can an artistic movement be official? What books in particular would you recommend from that chart?

>> No.15803891

>>15803312
Finnegans Wake

>> No.15804310

>>15803312
Interesting. Bumping

>> No.15804322

>>15803312
Start with the Surrealists

>> No.15804507

>>15803312
Solar Anus

>> No.15804959

murakami - hard boiled wonderland

>> No.15804998

Finnegans Wake if you want to go full blown what the fuck.
Murakami's stuff if you want some fairly light reading that's still dreamlike and surreal.
I really enjoy Kafka's Amerika, though it's far more rigid and real than the Trial.
Pynchon can dip into the surreal a fair amount.

>> No.15805038

The Gormenghast saga, specially the third book and mostly the stand alone short novella 'Boy in darkness'

>> No.15806545

>>15803332
read this

>> No.15806880

>>15803312
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

>> No.15807472

Bump

>> No.15808949

bump

>> No.15808967

the book equivalent of backpack rap is Infinite Jest

>> No.15809915

Bump

>> No.15809926

>>15803312
The surreal, the idea that fiction is stranger than reality, is over, since you can no longer tell fiction from reality.

>> No.15810609

>>15809926
Pseud

>> No.15810690

>>15803312
You might want to look at magical realism as a genre, it flits between surrealism and impressionism. The Magus is a good starting point.

>> No.15810697

David Ohle's Motorman.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvnh_-ZtFiM

>> No.15811526

>>15803312
Murakami

>> No.15812976

The Tenant is my favorite horror book I have read so far if you are into that.
Forth on the Daydream/Mood Indigo is a well written book that gets better as it goes on. The love between main character and the one he falls in love with in the book is not convincing/interesting but the rest is a fun read.
Murakami I like everyone else has said.
A lot of Kafka’s work is surrealist as well. If you have read his more popular novels, I would highly recommend his short stories.

>> No.15813224

>>15803312
>Any good surrealist literature?
Kafka on the shore, sputnik sweetheart by murakami are good entry points expecially the second one.
Kafka is also a must read.
I would also recc Svevo, Joyce and Pirandello. They may not be proper "surrealists" but since you want to surrealist books I think you might also be interested to the ideas of the inconscious mind and such. So those are all great authors to explore as well.

>> No.15813246

>>15810690
>magical realism
Is this a real genre? I've always seen this term thrown around when people are discussing murakami works and it always pops out. But are there other books that could be classified with "magical realism"?

>> No.15813309

a book with no pages that you just stare at

>> No.15813360

>>15813246
Yes, magical realism is an established genre. Historically, it was originally defined as a literary genre before it started being used to describe other types of art.
It's primarily latin-americans that go full-tilt into it, but Murakami is also a prominant author that falls into it. Rushdie is another good example.

>> No.15813368

>>15803312
Thomas the Obscure by Blanchot
The Atrocity Exhibition by Ballard
Watt by Beckett
apart from stuff on the chart posted before


i dont think surrealism works in a longform narrative, the painters and poets went much further than the novelists, thats where the really good stuff are

>> No.15813398

>>15803361
I'd replace Blue of Noon with Madam Edwarda and/or My Mother, and add Irene's Cunt by Aragon.

>> No.15813423

>>15813360
Thanks for the informative post anon.

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>>15813309
That’s a sketchbook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOEE_Yc6zZQ&feature=emb_rel_end

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RYU (not haruki) Murakami.

>> No.15815846

>>15813246
One Hundred Years of Solitude

>> No.15816056

>>15803826

Locus Solus is okish

Valeria and Her Week of Wonders is cool

Complete Stories by Kafka is a must read

My body and I is better than Babylon if you crave some Crevel

Those are the ones I've read from the list sxo far. Most of them are pretty hard to find honestly

>> No.15816066

>>15813360

Saramago is the official king of Magical Surrealism though.

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YOOOOO OP
cLOUDDEAD'S S/T IS MY FAVORITE ALBUM I FUCKING GOT YOU
Hawkes is your man. Filename extremely related.
Hawkes is what you're looking for, because it was what I was looking for. Trust me

>> No.15817256

>>15816101
Okay fuck yes I’ll for sure read this.